OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Methods & Research is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	197
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	105
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	43
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	42
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	41
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	38
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	36
Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling	34
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	24
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	24
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	23
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	19
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	16
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	15
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	14
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	13
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	12
Applying Responsive Survey Design to Small-Scale Surveys: Campus Surveys of Sexual Misconduct	12
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	11
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	11
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	11
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery	11
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	11
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	10
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	10

Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	10
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric	10
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork^,	9
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement	8
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	8
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	8
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	8
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models	8
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	8
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	7
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery	7
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood	7
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	7
Using Inverse Probability Weighting to Address Post-Outcome Collider Bias	7
Linking Input Inequality and Outcome Inequality	7
Path Analysis for Binary Random Variables	6
Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions	6
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis	6
Estimation and sensitivity analysis for causal decomposition in health disparity research	6
Correcting the Measurement Errors of AI-Assisted Labeling in Image Analysis Using Design-Based Supervised Learning	6
Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods	6
Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Reflect two Distinct Cultures? An Empirical Analysis of 180 Articles Suggests “no”	6
Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries	5
Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond: Putting Situationalism to Work for Qualitative Interviews	5
A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users	5
Visual Design and Cognition in List-Style Open-Ended Questions in Web Probing	5
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	5
Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference	4
Deep Learning With DAGs	4
Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis	4
The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning	4
A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach for Modeling Memory Decay in Dynamic Social Networks	4
Untapped Potential: Designed Digital Trace Data in Online Survey Experiments	4
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.	4
Sequential On-Device Multitasking within Online Surveys: A Data Quality and Response Behavior Perspective	4
The Unrealized Potential of Audits: Applicant-Side Inequalities in Effort, Opportunities, and Certainty	4
Deceptively Approachable: Translating Standards in Qualitative Research	4
Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing	4
The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer	3
Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences	3
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy	3
Fear Not Scarcity but Inequality, Not Poverty but Instability	3
The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation	3
Estimating Causal Effects of Multi-Valued Treatments Accounting for Network Interference: Immigration Policies and Crime Rates	3
Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse	3
A Rolling Panel Model of Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects for the Analysis of the General Social Survey	2
Conceptualizing Job and Employment Concepts for Earnings Inequality Estimands With Linked Employer-Employee Data ¹	2
Comparing Methods for Estimating Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses	2
Moving Beyond Linear Regression: Implementing and Interpreting Quantile Regression Models With Fixed Effects	2
Modeling the Bias of Digital Data: An Approach to Combining Digital With Official Statistics to Estimate and Predict Migration Trends	2

Open-ended versus Closed Probes: Assessing Different Formats of Web Probing	2
Improving Fairness in Criminal Justice Algorithmic Risk Assessments Using Optimal Transport and Conformal Prediction Sets	2
Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?	2
Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into Social Science Research: Measurement, Prompting, and Simulation	2
Uncertainty, Possibility, and Causal Power in QCA	2
A Robustness Test Protocol for Applied QCA: Theory and R Software Application	2
The Extended Computational Case Method: A Framework for Research Design	2
Cognitive Plausibility and Qualitative Research	2
The Impact of Survey Mode Design and Questionnaire Length on Measurement Quality	2
Politics as Usual? Measuring Populism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in U.S. Presidential Campaigns (1952–2020) with Neural Language Models	2
High-Dimensional Imputation for the Social Sciences: A Comparison of State-of-The-Art Methods	2
From Ends to Means: The Promise of Computational Text Analysis for Theoretically Driven Sociological Research	2
Abductive Coding: Theory Building and Qualitative (Re)Analysis	2
Comparing Egocentric and Sociocentric Centrality Measures in Directed Networks	2